WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 2005
Find out what all happened July to November 2005

A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history. (18. August 2005)

Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General. (4. August 2005)

Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz. (21. October 2005)

Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. (28. October 2005)

Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election. (7. September 2005)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran. (3. August 2005)

Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms. (22. October 2005)

The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (9. November 2005)

Tornadoes touch down in residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people. (28. July 2005)

The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France. (27. November 2005)

Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. (23. July 2005)

The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy. (16. September 2005)

The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland. (28. July 2005)

Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. (29. July 2005)

Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage. (10. July 2005)

The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. (4. July 2005)

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins. (15. August 2005)

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage. (29. August 2005)

The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. (30. September 2005)

Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. (19. October 2005)